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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
You MUST Read This Book!,
By tnprofessor (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership (Paperback)
I have to say, this is possibly the most helpful, energizing, powerful book I've ever read. I've been forcing myself to read only one chapter at a time, because I want to be able to savor it for as long as possible.I would recommend this book to Christians and non-Christians alike, because I think both groups could benefit from understanding more fully what the Bible means and how fundamental Christianity is NOT anti-women in even the slightest way. God is a fair and just God, and He laid this out clearly in the Bible. Where we've confused it is simply in human translation and interpretation based on our personal and social biases. This book helps take you back to the basics - explaining the culture during Biblical times, the meanings of Greek words from the original text, etc. - and is so enlightening! I would give it more than 5 stars if Amazon would let me. Read it. I can't recommend it highly enough.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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An accessible book on women in ministry,
This review is from: Why Not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership (Paperback)
I loved this book. I have read since many years the arguments from the complementarian and the equalitarian sides of the debate (plus all the nuances within each one). What I particularly like here are the analyses of David Hamilton on the various controversial passages. Having studied classical Greek for four years, I really appreciate the sound linguistic approach. Plus, this is really a book for the Christian in the pew. David Hamilton has an amazing talent to render linguistic concepts clear. One reviewer deplored the absence of exhaustive theological references, but this has been addressed in many scholarly books. The reader interested in digging further can find a list of them classified by theme at www.cbeinternational.org , for example.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Interesting but off and on biblically,
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This review is from: Why Not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership (Paperback)
Initially upon reading WHY NOT WOMEN?, I enjoyed it immensely and found it to be so eye opening. It was particularly the way it went into dept with the key scriptures about women (i.e. 1 Corinthians 11:3; 14:34-35, Ephesians 5:23, 1 Timothy 2:12). [Also it really did help me to understand the chiastic structure of Paul's teachings.] But then after researching & rethinking the particular points made by the author, I had to bring this book down from 5 stars to 2 stars.WHY NOT WOMEN? is accurate in the sense that that such Bible references (see above) are not intended to oppress women but to keep order in the church, which allows them to have freedom in Christ. Where this book makes wrong statements is declaring that women & men are basically the same in their roles. Trying to support an egalitarian doctrine with faulty scriptural support does largely this. For instance WHY NOT WOMEN? claims that the relationship between men & women is completely equal with mutually submission just like the Trinity. Although that's not quite how the Trinity interacts. Such as with men & women, no one person of the Trinity is more valuable that the other. But Jesus Christ submits to the Father and not the other way around (even though the Father exalts the Son). There are also a number of other small things misconstrued from Scripture such as Sarah being referred to as a prophetess because she heard God speak. Simply hearing God speak does not make one a prophet(ess). If that were the case then both Cain and Balaam were prophets because they heard from God (Jude 1:11).
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